This study describes and examines the acoustic properties of the central vowels [ɨ] and [ ] in Malaysian Hokkien (MH). The two central vowels are typologically special in that both of them are “full-fledged”, phonemic vowels in an inventory. Therefore our main research question is to see if the two central vowels are subject to contextual influences, just like their counterparts in other langua...

Dillerde uzun ünlüler, birincil/aslî ünlüler ve ikincil/dolaylı olarak ikiye ayrılırlar. Birincil ünlüler; bir dilin bilinen ilk örneklerinden beri olan herhangi ses olayına bağlı uzamamış ünlülerdir. İkincil ise; örneklerinde olmadıkları hâlde, daha sonra, ünsüz düşmeleri, hece kaynaşmaları, ünlü birleşmeleri benzeri olayları sonucunda meydana gelen genellikle anlam ayırıcı olmayan ünlülerdir....

Recent studies have shown that time-varying changes in formant pattern contribute to the phonetic specification of vowels. This variation could be especially important in children's vowels, because children have higher fundamental frequencies (f0's) than adults, and formant-frequency estimation is generally less reliable when f0 is high. To investigate the contribution of time-varying changes i...

1. Introduction Vowel harmony is a requirement by which vowels in a certain domain agree in one or more phonetic features. 1 In Hungarian, the feature subject to harmony is the horizontal position of the tongue ([±back]). In many Hungarian roots, vowels in a word are either all front or all back, as in öröm 'joy', város 'city' (umlaut denotes front round vowels, and acute accent denotes length)...

This exploratory acoustic study focused on the relationship between laryngeal constriction and vowel quality in the vocalizations of infants aged 0-12 months learning Bai, which employs laryngeal constriction distinctively in its register tone system, and English, which uses laryngeal constriction only paralinguistically. Spectral tilt (H2-H1) measurements of front, neutral, and open vowels sho...

Using a combination of magnetometry and ultrasound, we examined the articulatory characteristics of the so-called 'transparent' vowels [i], [i], and [e] in Hungarian vowel harmony. Phonologically, transparent vowels are front, but they can be followed by either front or back suffixes. However, a finer look reveals an underlying phonetic coherence in two respects. First, transparent vowels in ba...

Purpose We sought to examine the contribution of visual cues in audiovisual identification of consonants and vowels-in terms of isolation points (the shortest time required for correct identification of a speech stimulus), accuracy, and cognitive demands-in listeners with hearing impairment using hearing aids. Method The study comprised 199 participants with hearing impairment (mean age = 61....

The production and perception of L2 vowels are influenced by the L1 vowel system. Most studies on L2 vowel production evaluate the learners’ pronunciation using subjective listening tests. In this study we present a novel objective method for investigating learner vowel confusability based on acoustic measurements. Monosyllabic words uttered by Spanish learners of Dutch are analyzed, and basic ...

Speech sounds are traditionally divided into consonants and vowels. When only vowels or only consonants are replaced by noise, listeners are more accurate understanding sentences in which consonants are replaced but vowels remain. From such data, vowels have been suggested to be more important for understanding sentences; however, such conclusions are mitigated by the fact that replaced consona...

Arabic texts suffer from missing short vowels. Speech Recognition is not as good English speech recognition due to the vowels being recognized. And language unlike in characteristics such number of has more than 24 that are close each other pronunciation. The only three far utter and measurement, by elongating those vowels, long arose. Researchers said could be recognized using formants. forman...